José Jun Martínez is a Puerto Rican-born, London-based painter whose work explores our emotional and sensory relationship with the natural world. He visits us in the Jackson’s Studio to discuss how his approach to painting resembles an organic process. Much like the verdant botanical world he depicts in his work, his practice reflects innate growth and change. José discusses his use of textural mark-making as a reflection of the environment, how he works with a reduced palette to create a full spectrum of colours, and how the scale of his paintings can create a sense of being swallowed by the work, fully immersed in his lush expression of nature.   Artist Insights: José Jun Martínez     Contents 0:00 “If I don’t feel that this painting is gonna eat me, it’s not good” 0:10 “That is how nature is, it’s always bigger than me” 0:40 “I am absorbed by it because I am a part of it, because I am a child of it” 1:15 Introduction 1:37 “Art was my thing” 3:04 “I use the word landscape to explain my painting because it’s the easiest, but I don’t consider myself a landscape painter” 3:27 “When I am painting a place, …

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